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Should I be showing you more respect, Cyaxares, Cyrus made reply to this, if I arrayed myself in purple and adorned myself with bracelets and put on a necklace and at my leisure obeyed your orders, than I have in obeying you with such dispatch and accompanied by so large and so efficient an army? And I have come myself adorned with sweat and marks of haste to honour you and I present the others likewise obedient to you.
Thus Cyrus spoke, and Cyaxares recognizing that he was right summoned the Indians.
Should I be showing you more respect, Cyaxares, Cyrus made reply to this, if I arrayed myself in purple and adorned myself with bracelets and put on a necklace and at my leisure obeyed your orders, than I have in obeying you with such dispatch and accompanied by so large and so efficient an army? And I have come myself adorned with sweat and marks of haste to honour you and I present the others likewise obedient to you.
Thus Cyrus spoke, and Cyaxares recognizing that he was right summoned the Indians.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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